Supplemental box-lid.



P. A. BECKER.

SUPPLEMENTAL BOX LID. APPLICATION men use. 11. 1914.

1,287,833. Patented Dec.17, 1918.

9mm: amnni ioz enabling the contents of the box to PHILIP A. BECKER, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SUPPLEMENTAL BOX-LID.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec.17,1918.

Application filed December 11, 1914. Serial No. 876,693.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP A. BECKER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Supplemental Box-Lids, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to a class of devices adapted to be used in conjunction with boxes.

My invention has for its objects primarily to provide a supplemental lid designed to be employed on the open top of the body of a box, especially one containing cigars and other tobacco products, whereby the contents of the box may be advantageously displayed for sale on show cases, counters, and the like and at the same time preventing the contents from being damaged by subjection to the air and the collection of dust, etc. This is accomplished mainly by providing a transparent plate which is applied on the open top of the body of a box so as to be swung to open and closed positions thereon, thereby be conveniently dispensed as well as protecting the goods from being damaged.

Another object of the invention is to provide stationary hinging members, or pins which serve to allow the transparent plate to be detachably pivoted to the body of the box; and still another object of the invention is to provide means for securing the pins to the transparent plate.

A further object of the invention is to provide a supplemental lid of simple and efficient construction, and which is susceptible of being made so as to sell at a very modcrate price.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompany ng drawing forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference in-- dicate corresponding parts in all the views, the said invention being more fully described hereinafter, and then pointed out in the claim at the end of the description.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a box with the form of supplemental lid embodying my invention applied thereto, and

Fig. 2 is a top plan of'the supplemental lid.

The supplemental box lid has a transparent plate 10 of a size adapted to close the open top of the body of a box, as 11, which may have a lid, as 12, hinged thereto, though the supplemental lid when employed in conjunction with a cigar box, as illustrated, the transparent plate is formed so as to fit between the projecting upper portions and adjacent to the upper edges of the end walls of the box which usually extend some distance above the front and rear walls thereof. The plate 10 may be made of glass, or any other transparent material.

In order to permit the transparent plate 10 to be detachably fastened to the body of the box so as to be swung to open and closed positions thereon, extending laterally in opposite directions from the ends of one of the edges of the plate are two hinging members, or pins 13 and 14. The pins 13 and ll are held stationary to the plate preferably by soldering or otherwise connecting them to a frame 15 which inclose the edges of the plate in entirety, although these pins may be fixed to the plate by any other suitable means. The frame 15 may be of any desired type, the same being shown as of wire engaging the edges of the plate and anchored thereto by clips 15, and the free ends of the pins which extend beyond the plate and its frame are sharpened to a keen penetrating point, as at 16.

When this form of supplemental lid is applied to a box the transparent plate 10 is disposed on the body of the box between its end walls and so that the pins 13 and 14: will be in proximity to the box lid. The rear upper corner portions of the end walls are then forced outwardly for the pointed ends of the pins to be disposed therebetween, and when the end walls are sprung reversely the pins will be driven into these walls. The transparent plate 10 will thereby be hingedly fastened to the box so as to be guided to open and closed positions on its open top and serving to permit the lid to be conveniently swung, extending from the front of the plate may be a finger piece, as 17. In this manner a simple and efiicient supplemental display lid is provided for employment on the open top of the body of a box whereby the contents thereof may be advantageously displayed for sale on show cases, counters, and the like as well as serving to prevent the contents from being damaged by subjection to the air and the collection of dust, etc.

in the foregoing description, I have era-- bodied the preferred form of my invention, but I do not wish to be understood as liniiting myself thereto, as I am aware that modifications ma be made therein without dcpart-ing from the principle, or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention, therefore I reserve to myself the right to make such changes as fairly fall within the scope of the appended claiin.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure bv Letters Patent The combination with the body of a box having an open top, of a supplemental lid arranged in the open top of the body, coni- Copies of this patent may be obtained for memes prising a transparent plate with a substantially rectangular wire frame on the edge of the plate including means which clamp spaced parts of the frame and plate together, and two fixed pointed pins on opposite corners of one edge of the frame, said pins being inserted in the wall of the body of the box to allowthe lid to be swung to open and closed positions on the body.

This specification signed and witnessed this tenth day of December, A. D. 1914:.

PHILIP A. BECKER.

Witnesses Boer. B. ABBOTT, M. DERMODY.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

